Nayarambalam is a coastal village on Vypeen island in Ernakulam District in the state of Kerala, India. The village is surrounded by Edavanakkad Grama Panchayat to the north, Narakkal Grama Panchayat to the south, the Arabian Sea to the west and Veeranpuzha to the east. This blog is a photographic documentation of Nayarambalam.

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About Nayarambalam

Nayarambalam is a cool village in Vypeen island, Ernakulam District, Kochi Taluk. Beautifully landscaped with scintillating backwaters in the east and Arabian sea in the west. Blessed with several natural and man-made canals, Nayarambalam stands alone one of the model villages of the state.
Nayarambalam comes under the constituency of Ernakulam. It comes under the jurisdiction of Narakkal Police station. The telephone exchange is also Narakkal (local telephone code is 484-249XXXX) and most of the major mobile telephone operators has good coverage and signal strength in Nayarambalam. There is a main post office and a branch po (Nedungad) at Nayarambalam.
Apart from many positive features, people of Nayarambalam suffer some key issues

Scarcity of drinking water

Drinking water scarcity was one of the major issue for the past three or four decades in Nayarambalam. Over the assembly elections all parties campaign about the issue and dramatically alleges each other.Always the drinking water issue had been an election campaign tool for both of the prominent fronts of political parties. Even today, there is no effective drinking water solution in Nayarambalam panchayath.

News on water scarcity at Nayarambalam. Manorama 21APR11

Empty water pots at the public taps

Lack of well-connected rural roads

There are plenty of roads in Nayarambalam. But there must be new ones as the population and human habitats grows day by day. Also all of the present roads has to be maintained to ensure smooth traffic. But the fact is that, the road maintenance system of Nayarambalam Panchayath is pitiable.

Drainage system

There were plenty of natural and man-made canals through out Nayarambalam panchayath. As a result of the hike in population people reclaimed lots of land for habitation purpose. This caused drainage problems. Lots of paddy fields and canals are being reclaimed still now.

Disappearing paddy fields

Population grows. New habitats has to be found. The land is limited. Agriculture is a low-return business. Real estate buy-sell business gives double returns. So what to do? Reclaim the fields. Sell it for much higher profit. There may be restrictions in reclaiming paddy fields.Listed out above were some of the issues which Nayarambalam faces today. But there are several advantages people of Nayarambalam enjoys.

Accessibility

Once upon a time, the Vypeen-Pallippuram state highway was totally in hopeless state. In certain locations the road was totally broken. But after the Vallarpadam Container Transshipment Terminal project came under effect, the highway got out from the curse. Places like Nayarambalm in the Vypeen Island got smooth road better accessibility.

Education

A major advantage of Nayarambalam is that it is sufficient with enough educational institutions. A handful of elementary schools, High Schools and one Higher Secondary School are working under aided/unaided/private management sectors.

Health

A primary health center. A Govt. Ayurveda Hospital. Some privately owned nursing homes and specialty centers. Nayarambalam has basic infrastructure in health sector. And the people has access to the nearby village Narakkal Govt. Hospital and the malty-specialty (limited) Kristhujayanthi hospital.

Scope of tourism

Still the scope of tourism in Nayarambalam is not much explored. The Pokkali cultivation method is really an eco-friendly mode of paddy cultivation which may have attract eco/farm tourists. Pokkali is a cyclic method in paddy cultivation in an organic way in the wet fields in the coastal regions of Alappuzha, Ernakulam, and Thrissur districts. The rice is cultivated from June - November as the level of salinity in the wet field is very low. From November to April, the salinity level gets high, fish (especially prawn) farming takes over. The prawn seedlings, which comes from the sea and the backwaters after the paddy harvest, feed on the leftovers of the harvested crop. Sluice gates are used to control the water flow to the fields. The rice crop, which get no other fertilizer or manure, draw nutrients from the prawns’ excrement and other remnants.

Brief

District : Ernakulam

Constituency : Vypeen

Taluk : Cochin

Police station : Narakkal

Post office : Nayarambalam

Telephone Exchange : Narakkal

PIN : 682509

Administration
There is no rigid influence of any political parties in Nayarambalam. Both right and left fronts had lead the Panchayath alternatively.
Here is the elected members of Nayarambalam Panchayath as per the the local body elections done in Kerala on October 2010. The results of the Election 2010 declared on October 27, 2010. For more details, just click on the names of the members.

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Nayarambalam. Its my land!

Undefinable is my relationship with Nayarambalam village. I love her, I worship. I born to her laps. I was grown in front of her. She witnessed my calm childhood and turbulent youth. I celebrated my life inside of her soul.